Authors
He paid tribute to Shakespeare, his poem “To the memory of my beloved, The Author Mr. William Shakespeare,”
Ben Jonson (1573 – 1637)
Written during a period of political uncertainty, it reflect the era’s intellectual climate, emphasizing doubts about knowledge, morality, and reality
Hamlet (1600–1601)
Leading Metaphysical poet and a celebrated preacher of the Jacobean church
John Donne (1621)
An epic poem on the Fall of Man with the main themes of rebellion, obedience and temptation
Paradise Lost (1667)
He wrote a diary which became famous for vivid, candid detail and depictions of England during Restoration, plague and the Great Fire.
Samuel Pepys
It is a satirical novel about a ship's surgeon named who journeys to bizarre lands
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)
He was the founder of empiricism and promoted the concept of a person being born with the mind as 'blank slate'. His main ideas include natural rights to life, liberty, and property; the social contract, where government is formed by the consent of the governed to protect these rights.
John Locke (1632-1704)
This book argues that women are rational beings who deserve the same comprehensive education as men to become independent and virtuous companions, rather than being confined to a subordinate and subservient role based on gender.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)
He wrote An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations which remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism.
Adam Smith (1723 - 1790)
A vivid Hogarthian panorama of eighteenth-century life, spiced with danger and intrigue, bawdy exuberance and good-natured authorial interjections, it is one of the greatest and most ambitious comic novels in English literature.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding (1749)